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All hands on deck
TO listen to the Defence Department spin doctors, the future of the Royal Australian Navy has never looked better. They boast of how during the next 20 years a new fleet of deadly destroyers and futuristic submarines will rule the waves, posing a substantial deterrent to the rising naval powers in the region.
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Petraeus makes Pakistan a priority
DEMOCRATIC presidential hopeful Barack Obama has signalled a change of policy towards Pakistan if he wins tomorrow's election.
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Howard fear for Diggers in Timor
JOHN Howard braced himself for the possibility of up to 30 Australian soldiers being killed when deciding to send troops to East Timor.
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Situation normal, all fouled up
ON the evening of September 11 this year, a small circle of American diplomats and soldiers stood around the main flag pole at the US embassy in Kabul performing a quiet ceremony in memory of the attack seven years earlier that brought the Americans here to Afghanistan.
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Photograph 'not of Light Horse charge'
AFTER 90 years, the Australian War Memorial has laid to rest one of the most seductive myths surrounding the Light Horse's famous charge at Beersheba in 1917.
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Rudd rejects Keating view on Gallipoli
KEVIN Rudd, who has walked the Kokoda Track but not visited Anzac Cove, has rejected Paul Keating's claim that the Gallipoli campaign was not part of the creation of the national identity.
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Minister wants ADF ready for operations
JOEL Fitzgibbon wants the Defence Department to focus on providing equipment considered vital for current military operations.
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Navy orders its sailors to plug leaks
THE Chief of Navy has written to sailors warning them that unauthorised leaks to the media are a betrayal of the "value set" of the Royal Australian Navy.
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New vehicles to shield soldiers from bombs
AUSTRALIA will join the US in developing a new generation of protected light army vehicles, which will provide troops with far better protection against the ever-growing threat posed by roadside bombs.
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ADF's Afghan victims top Iraq
MORE innocent civilians have been accidentally killed or injured by Australian troops in Afghanistan than occurred during the entire Iraq conflict.
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Eight die in helicopter crash
ALL eight people on board died when an Italian military helicopter crashed and burst into flames in a field today in eastern France.
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Win for parents of bullied soldiers
THE mother of a young soldier found hanged at the Holsworthy barracks alleges her son was bullied by soldiers because of his ethnicity.
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